Hey a few of you have mentioned that people in SK buy land and stick a mobile home on it. I am checking out bare land and thinking that might be the route to take, since a 20 acre place with a mobile already set up is approx $90,000...

well for about half the price of that, one could buy this 80 acre peice and stick a brand new mobile with the savings, and end up with 60 extra acres.

This is the link to the land I am talking about:
http://www.mls.ca/PropertyDetails.as...ertyID=5318392

What my question is, is this.
Could a person stick a mobile on this land?
or is there a "agricultural land reserve" in the saskatoon area?
I know out here in BC, if land is under the ALR, you cannot use it for anything except to farm it.Trying to change the zoning out here is next to impossible.

I know I could call the realtor with it listed , but thought I would get some idea from the Stoon guys on here first.

thanks

 

Not totally sure about this one but you should be able to get it zoned rural residential or leave it zoned as farmland and put a mobile on it anyway. I think you should check on the legalities of it all to be sure. Quite often it depends on the RM you are in.

 

Ask 66, he lives out that way. That is a nice little chunk of land. Wreck it sounds to me like you are pretty much doing what I am doing, trying to get an acreage outside of stoon. I have found a few that are a tad farther away from the city, and if you need more sites to use to search for stuff let me know, I have like ten or so sites I use to try to find land.

 

Het I know that land. Man it is a great spot. Access is a bit hard. Your close to the tonw of Delisle and Saskatoon is only a 1/2 hour away. That property has a valley and creek and ponds running through it. It has a nice veiw looking down the valley there. I myself would be very tempted if I was starting over. But built too much here in the last 10 years and no plans to move again.
I can tell you this it is a nice place. Putting a mobile home there is not a big issue with this RM here. Corman park is very picky.
You have to put a slab down or cement anchors or steel anchors in the ground to anchor the mobile home on. That is a provincial building law.
It is 80 acres. This RM will only let you subdivide into 40 acres.
You could get the property and move on it. Fence 2 40 acre parcels and once establish sell the other 40 acres. With you now having power and gas and road to the property the value will go up and with a veiw of the valley is a big asset also increasing the value. So you could get another 20,000 on resale of the remaining 40 acres. But you will still have a mortgage ,but a smaller one.
I will tell you come spring time when people here do most of their home buying. They will see it and not hesitate. As I said that place has a very nice scentic veiw. Most of that land in hilly there and not much agriculture. So as irritable land they would not be concerned. This RM is concerned if building on land that can be farmed. That property has very little irratable land.

 

hey good to know... we just had more people looking at our house here, they seemed like they didnt want to leave and the one older guy was smacking his lips while thinking about it... you could tell he was thinking it wasnt that bad...

compared to some people that just come and leave right away...

you sure that 80 acre parcel has a creek? because that same guy has 3 parecels for sale, all are the same prices, but different acre sizes...one says something like 20 acres, with a creek...but still asking $42,500...

thats good to know about the mobile deal... about having a concrete slab and that the RM there isnt too picky...

well as soon as this place sells, and when some other money stuff happens down the road... I will be able to afford a bit more... were only going to make an extra $30-$40 g on this house... but it makes a good down payment and money left over for the move and getting a SK registered daily driver too...
plus we are going to deck ourselves and our kids out in a set of nice thermal clothes each... -20 here and we are cold... and it only lasts for a couple days at a time, when it was -30 for that two days last month, it HURT

 

the other thing to be concerned about is the location of gas lines and how far they have to come in with it. It can be very costly. Also power is another concern. These things can cost a heafty amount.
Also check to make sure the land has been surveyed into parcels. It most likely is if s realator is selling it. There was a fella trying to sell his land in subdivided sections, but he was selling privately and he expected you as the buyer to pay for the property to be surveyed and apply to the R.M. This way it did not cost him any money. As it stands he never sold the land. He was asking market value and expected you to pay the rest of the costs on top.

If there is 3 property's there. They all are great sites for building. If you make $40 g clear that pays the property of. The banks tend to lend to you to build a new home ifyou have land that is paid and plan to build on. You could probally get an 80,000 RTM home moved in. Although a trailer maybe cheaper and you could build a nice heated shop for the Bronco.

 

Do your homework. Like mentioned, the utilities (phone, power, natural gas) can cost in the range of 15-20000 to bring into a yard. Phone is cheap, power is mid priced, but gas can be $$$. Also surveying, land title transfer fees, zoning bylaws governing subdivisions all must be factored. Not wanting to sound negative, just informative.

 

A good realator can help you out ith those things or conenct you to soemone who will help you on that. A good realtor rather help than lose a sale. A bad one will just sell it fast for a buck and let you wallow through the tape.

 

hey thanks laredof350 for the info, thats why I ask, cuz I dont know
We are planning to find a place to settle down at and stay for a long long time...thats one reason im picking SK... will be a whole different world in 20 more years...
I didnt realize gas was so expensive, but come to think if it... i can see why it would be the most $$$... except for maybe hooking into city sewer... if thats an option or not... septic probably not much cheaper though


hey 66 I know about some realtors... i have a friend that has been selling his own houses for 14 years... he isnt a realtor, him and his 2 brothers renovate and flip houses in his hometown, I swear that family alone is responsible for keeping half of that small town from looking like the ghettos...

we had a realtor in here and he wasnt interested in bothering with our place, he just told us some low ball figure that would make him a quick buck... we ended up using someone else...
looking into mobiles and see that around $40,000 gets you about a 2000 year model... which would probably still be nice... but then the slab, utilities, water well... just keeps climbing
thanks guys

 

This is probably a modular home and it would be very nice compared to mobile homes from years back.
You`re rite, everything does add up but do a budget first and it should work.
It`s usually most cost effective to be an established acreage and if you`re handy with reno you can end up ith some $$ by buying, fixing and reselling till you end up with some good equity.

 

true fomoko, that was the plan with this house, buy whatever we could afford that wasnt a drain on $$$ and fix it up enough to sell it and make some quick money for another place...we havent been able to do half of what I wanted to do...still gotta get a job so that the money dosnt dry up...and jobs here havent been good...

you gotta have a city closeby for the kind of work I do... and you cant even enter the market after this last 6 years of prices going up, up, up... SK, MB, possibly the maritimes... are the only places left for a guy like me

I didnt know they were modulars... all I can find is companies in the USA online, althought I havent done a ton of searching around, just a quick search to see what they are around... they are more expensive than I was thinking they were

 

With Stoon growing like it is, there are lots of older farmyards taking on the status of 'acreages' as all the stuff closer to the city escalates in price. People are going further out to get into their price range. There is lots of development happening out towards Aberdeen (northeast of city).

 

Like I said in a another thread you posted. some people have gone to Donavon and Swanson for cheap property's and have them paid off in 5 years. Then buy new vehicles for the commutes.
Yes the further you get from the city the cheaper it gets to buy homes and land. Lots of old farm sites are being made into acreages because they have trees around them and a person does not have to plant like I have to.
That property by Delisle has trees in the valley, but where you would build or move a trailer is kinda in the open. Man I wish it was for sale when i moved out here. It is a nice plot of land. The wild life right out your door. Those property's also have a paved road going by them. Thats a bonus.

 

Yeah paying something off in 5 years isnt impossible in and around Saskatoon, I have used the mortgage calculator to work them out and for less than what rent is here, you could pay a place off there in 5-7 years.Thats one of the reasons Saskatoon sounds so good to us.I like to be within my grasp, not into the buy everything on credit deal No telling what could happen in the next 2 years, never mind 10-20.
I just want what I can really afford, and not overshoot on all the luxuries

too bad you couldn't have gotten that land 66, but by the sounds of it, after 10 years of working hard to set your place up just right... probably not worth it all, if your working fulltime and stuff.That land sounds like its a killer deal, I bet by spring when people start being more active outdoors it will sell, like you said

If I was willing to stay here for the next 10 years I could have this place built perfect.Problem is by the signs of things here, its going to be 20 or more before its liveable, by my standards I feel like I am living in third world conditions here.If I want fast food I can make myself a cup of bark tea on an open fire, but then so can someone in a poor african village HE HE
Thanks for all the tips and stuff guys.I will definately post where I end up out there after all these questions and stuff I have been asking. No idea what will be available, but all this extra time to think things through are still showing me that Saskatoon is the best spot for us.
I was looking into Moose Jaw today for something to do, did a bit of research on it and decided its not as good an option as Saskatoon is So far nowhere I have looked into living is as good as Saskatoon.